than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable … in terms of factors such as education and (non-land) inheritance. There are a number of other pronounced gender …

more important to adult welfare than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though … other pronounced gender differences, with intergenerational linkages appearing through the mother rather than the father. …

than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable … in terms of factors such as education and (non-land) inheritance. There are a number of other pronounced gender …

-record data sets for multiple countries, in addition to providing summary statistics from those data, including poverty and … addressed by a truly global micro-data base for studying poverty and inequality. …

suggests that only the second came with a widespread belief that poverty could and should be eliminated. After the first … Poverty Enlightenment, references to “poverty†(as a percentage of all words) were on a trend decline until 1960, after … references to both general and specific policies relevant to poverty. Developing countries also became more prominent in the …

Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a …

The idea that developing countries face a trade off between poverty and inequality has had considerable influence on … systematic trade off between measures of absolute poverty and relative inequality. Indeed, falling inequality tends to come with … falling poverty incidence. And rising inequality appears more likely to be putting a brake on poverty reduction than to be …

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …